Clinical Negligence

Led by Simon Taylor QC, our clinical negligence team are widely recognised as market leaders and are renowned for their expert knowledge. Our large team of highly respected silks and juniors are instructed to a wide range of cases and specialise in high value and complex matters including complex neurological birth injuries.

We obtain outstanding results and have been involved in some especially high-profile wins; recovering many millions on behalf of claimants in the last year alone.

Widely considered the leading claimant clinical negligence set, the directories recommend over a third of our team for Clinical Negligence and praise us for our strong culture of attention to detail, our innovative approach to quantum and our professional and efficient clerks.

Cloisters has always been at the cutting edge of clinical negligence law, playing a lead role in many of the major cases such as A v Powys Local Health Board (£10.7m), the highest ever clinical negligence award at trial and the first to break through the £10m barrier; Masterman-Lister v Brutton & Co and others, the leading Court of Appeal case on capacity; Iqbal v Whipps Cross University NHS Trust leading Court of Appeal case regarding compensation for the “lost years” and the doctrine of precedent; Crofton v NHSLA in respect of the impact of local authority payments on damages for care; and Lucas v Barking, Havering & Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust, the leading case on disclosure of draft witness statements and expert reports.